EDISON -- A man claiming to be a grandson in legal trouble called an 82-year-old township woman and convinced her to wire money, supposedly to get him out of jail.

On Monday, the woman notified police that she received a call from a man claiming to be her grandson and claiming he had been arrested on drunk-driving charges while on his way to wedding in Canada, police said.

As the man talked, he explained that lawyers would be calling her with instructions for sending the money, police said. The man asked her not to call her daughter, authorities said.

Minutes later, a man called the woman claiming to be a lawyer and telling the woman to send $2,950, authorities said.

The victim went to a Western Union and followed the instructions, but later she called her daughter and discovered her grandson had been working, and had not gone to Canada, police said.